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Since 1994, Educa A.C., as a civil organization, accompanies social movements, advises social organizations and indigenous communities in the defense of their social and civil rights, promotes civil and political education, advocates for the integral protection of human rights, and initiates projects of sustainable, rural development in the state of Oaxaca. As part of our strategy to promote civil and political education, we translate some of our publications into English and founded the Twitter account “Human Rights Oaxaca Mexico” to address an international audience. In the globalized world, we live in, today’s problems need to be viewed from different perspectives in order, to be solved. Therefore our work in English intends to give Oaxaca’s civil society a voice, create awareness and promote public dialogue. We cover topics such as social movements, gender and migration violence, territorial and environmental conflicts, indigenous resistance against transnational megaprojects, as well as other current issues Oaxaca’s civil society finds itself confronted with.

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Human Rights Activist and Oaxacan Indigenous Leader Killed

It was the 10th murder of a member of the Zapotec community in Oaxaca since 2013. The Oaxacan human rights advocate Jaime Lopez Hernandez, was killed by members of organized crime, according to the Indigenous Organization for Human Rights in Oaxaca (OIDHO, for its acronym in Spanish). Lopez, who was recently named secretary of the OIHDO’s board of directors, was shot in the back…
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25 septiembre, 2014
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Story of Indigenous Leader Mario Luna Romero and the Yaqui’s Fight for Water

It is one scandal atop another that about 16 months after the arrest warrant was issued against him Mario Luna Romer, the secretary of the Yaqui tribe, was arrested. Plainclothes policemen aboard four unmarked vehicles, seized him on September 11. The arrest and imprisonment of the indigenous leader--who, according to the state attorney, PAN member Carlos Alberto Navarro, is a…
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23 septiembre, 2014
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Consorcio Oaxaca completes 10 years working for a free life for women

To observe its tenth anniversary of work, Consorcio for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity Oaxaca (Consorcio Oaxaca) has published the book Lines toward New Geographies: Ten Years of Feminist Construction.  Since Consorcio Oaxaca emerged in 2003, with the goal of promoting respect for, and exercise of, the human rights of women and gender equality, it has been struggling against the criminalization of…
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17 septiembre, 2014
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Yaqui Tribe Spokesperson Detained in Mexican State of Sonora

Mario Luna opposes the construction of an aquifer through the Yaqui riverbasin. On Thursday morning, Yaqui tribal spokesman Mario Luna was whisked away in the City of Obreón in the Mexican state of Sonora by civilian-clothed officers who arrived in four unmarked cars. The officers were carrying out an apprehension order that was issued against Luna on June 14, 2013…
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12 septiembre, 2014
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Oaxaca’s Wind Parks May Violate OECD Rules

Four wind farm projects in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, operated or financed by European investors, could violate Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) rules, say activists. Three of the parks are being developed by Electricité de France (EDF) and the fourth is financed by public funds from Denmark and the Netherlands. Benjamin Cokelet, founder and executive director…
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2 septiembre, 2014
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Another Plan Colombia is no solution for Central America migration crisis

While the least-productive Congress in history went on vacation in August without addressing the Central American child refugee crisis, others opined about possible solutions. In an August 5 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, suggested policymakers look further south to Colombia and use the $8 billion Plan Colombia aid package as…
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30 agosto, 2014
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Mexican reporter shot dead in Oaxaca state

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder on Monday of Mexican reporter Octavio Rojas Hernández in the state of Oaxaca and calls on authorities to investigate the killing, identify the motive, and bring those responsible to justice. The Oaxaca attorney general's office said in a statement that Rojas was lured from his home the 11th of august at around…
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26 agosto, 2014